By Jason | August 31, 2011 at 9:58 am | No comments
District alters policy to allow teachers and administrators priority in submitting plans, instead of charter groups and other outsiders. Any group can still compete for existing, low-performing schools.
The Los Angeles Board of Education made a major change in its...
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By kcaskins | August 30, 2011 at 9:45 am | No comments
Roosevelt Career & Technical Academy, a high school in Gary, Indiana. The Indiana State Board of Education approved allowing private firms to take over five failing schools ; four in Indianapolis and one in Gary. The board's ...
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By Jason | May 19, 2011 at 10:27 am | No comments
Teacher Gift Cards. On Madison.com, Madison School Board member Ed Hughes says he wants to bonus the Madison teachers with a $200 Dane Buy local gift card to help make up for lost wages for the unpaid days they had to take for ...
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By Jason | May 18, 2011 at 12:10 pm | No comments
Attica Consolidated School Corporation School Board President Jerry Mattern said third grade teacher Christy Rentschler will be reinstated, effective immediately. Rentschler had been placed on paid suspension after accusations that she ...
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By kcaskins | May 17, 2011 at 5:54 pm | No comments
The Board of Regents is so sure of that that they're willing to stake up to 40 percent of teachers ' total evaluation scores in a forthcoming new evaluation system on state test scores. So if these test scores that certainly aren't ...
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By kcaskins | May 16, 2011 at 9:31 pm | No comments
Introducing a new option for how to change teacher evaluation, the Board of Regents voted today to allow districts and unions to increase the weight of.
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By Jason | May 16, 2011 at 9:30 pm | No comments
New York's Board of Regents has adopted a tougher teacher evaluation system that includes greater reliance on student performance in standardized tests.
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By kcaskins | May 16, 2011 at 7:03 pm | No comments
If the Board of Regents approves a proposal today to double the weight of student test scores in teacher evaluations, they'll be spurning the advice of 10.
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By Jason | May 14, 2011 at 4:35 am | No comments
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By Jason | May 13, 2011 at 10:16 pm | 2 comments
Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards – an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of ...
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